A video which will also capture Louis laughing, soft and contained but unmistakable. Unmistakable, and deeply fond.

Daniel is so.

Himself.

So entirely unchanged, parted only from the disease that had been slowly killing him. Louis is so pleased about it. Had been pleased too, Daniel arriving in Dubai grown old and still sharp, still recognizable and familiar. This is not so far from that moment. An echo of that feeling, only now made more complex by present circumstances.

Explanation of the song is left in Jeannie's capable hands. Louis has hooked an ankle up over his knee, lounging back in his chair into the light, incidental touch required by Lestat's spycraft.

When he time comes, Louis is effusive in his applause. Whistles through two fingers, over the rest of the bar.